Linked: 1 in 4 workers is considering quitting their job after the pandemic
Can your business afford to lose talent? I don’t know many who can.
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Quick Thought – How Diverse Can Your Organization Be When You are Trying To Force Everyone to be Like You?
So look, if you are craving being back in the office, and miss the small talk and gossip, great go on with yourself. But, also understand that there are a growing number of people who are perfectly happy not hearing the gossip and the small talk. (Personally, I have not missed fake small talk, gossip, and office politics for a second.) Others might want something in between. We’re all different. If you want to be an inclusive workplace, you’ll figure out how to accommodate everyone , with solid culture, good communication, and by valuing each of every one of your people, no matter where they get the work done.
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Linked: What Does It Mean to Be a Manager Today?
This is what employees are looking for, and it is what they respond to. If you plan on leading people in the workplace, you had better care about them as people, and have the ability to show them that. Anything less will jeopardize what kind of engagement you will get from them.
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Linked: Ways to end the taboo of employee departures
Sometimes, things happen. Circumstances change, what we want from our careers changes, and what the current employer can offer us changes. There’s no shame in it, and there shouldn’t be any hard, or awkward feelings about it.
I’d love to see companies get on board with that, but that’s going to require we see our people as people first, and labor inputs second. I’m not so sure some managers are capable of that.
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Career | Links | Mental Health
Linked: Shortage in mental health services fans flames of employee burnout
Use your vacation days, encourage the people who work for you to use their vacation days. Putting anything work-related above the need we all have for time away from work, is surely one road to burnout. There are many others, some of which you can’t do anything about by yourself, but this is one you control. And it’s easy enough to do and to allow your people to do.
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How Much Should we Value Meaningful Work?
“Would you rather make $100k at a boring, meaningless job, or $50k doing something meaningful?”
Apparently, the correct answer to this question is the latter, according to most of my LinkedIn connections.
I disagree. I think people who take $50k might just be suckers.
You are getting paid half of what you could be making elsewhere, which means your employer is simply underpaying you, by taking advantage of your need to find meaning in your work.
